Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: omap: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in remove

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On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 17:31:56 +0530, Shubhrajyoti D wrote:
>> Prevent the NULL pointer access by moving the platform_set_drvdata function
>> after the access of the pdev.
>>
>> [  654.961761] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000070
>> [  654.970611] pgd = df254000
>> [  654.973480] [00000070] *pgd=9f1da831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
>> [  654.980163] Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] SMP ARM
>> [  654.985076] Modules linked in:
>> [  654.988281] CPU: 1    Not tainted  (3.6.0-rc1-00031-ge547de1-dirty #339)
>> [  654.995330] PC is at omap_i2c_runtime_resume+0x8/0x148
>> [  655.000732] LR is at omap_i2c_runtime_resume+0x8/0x148
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shubhrajyoti D <shubhrajyoti@xxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> (This will rather go in Ben's or Wolfram's i2c tree.)

ping.

>
>> ---
>> v2: Implement Jean's suggestion of not deleting instead make it NULL at a safer time.
>>
>>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c |    3 +--
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c
>> index 5d19a49..c4ddb08 100644
>> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c
>> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c
>> @@ -1112,8 +1112,6 @@ static int __devexit omap_i2c_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>       struct resource         *mem;
>>       int ret;
>>
>> -     platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
>> -
>>       free_irq(dev->irq, dev);
>>       i2c_del_adapter(&dev->adapter);
>>       ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(&pdev->dev);
>> @@ -1127,6 +1125,7 @@ static int __devexit omap_i2c_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>       kfree(dev);
>>       mem = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
>>       release_mem_region(mem->start, resource_size(mem));
>> +     platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
>>       return 0;
>>  }
>>
>
>
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